Our litigation team, led by our Senior Partner, Peter Sit and Partner, Alex Chan, and comprising Rocky Wong, Alan Wong, Josephine Tang, Regina Ng and Christina Tsang, is pleased to report that after a four nights five days’ deliberation, the jurors in HCCC98/2013 have returned acquittal verdicts on all four counts (conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office, furnishing false information and conspiracy to offer an advantage to public servant) laid by the prosecution against our client Mr Raymond Kwok. The trial lasted 131 days, beginning on 8 May 2014 and the verdicts for the 19 counts against all five defendants were announced on 19 December 2014. The other four defendants in the case were convicted for one count to five counts of similar offences respectively. Mr Kwok has fully vindicated his innocence in respect of all the allegations leveled against him in the case, reported as the biggest corruption prosecution in the history of Hong Kong. A former chief secretary of the Hong Kong government was one of the defendants. Mr. John Kelsey-Fry, a top UK Queen’s Counsel specialized on criminal jury trials was instructed to represent Mr Kwok; he was assisted by Mr Steven Kwan, a local junior counsel, throughout the case.